1895 in art

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Events

• January 1 – Alphonse Mucha's lithographed poster for the play Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt is posted in Paris.^[1] Bernhardt is so satisfied with its success that she gives Mucha a six-year contract.
• April 13 – The Russian Museum is established in Saint Petersburg by Nicholas II.
• April 30 – First Venice Biennale opens.^[2]
• July 3 – Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
• October – Edvard Munch exhibits an extended series of his Love paintings in Christiania.
• November – Paul Cézanne has his first solo exhibition, at the Paris gallery of Ambroise Vollard.
• Bernard Berenson publishes Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism.
• P. H. Emerson publishes his last photographic book, Marsh Leaves.
• M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opened in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Works

Flaming June (Leighton)

• Aubrey Beardsley – Venus Between Terminal Gods (ink drawing)
• Paul Cézanne
  • The Boy in the Red Vest
  • Still Life with Cherub (approximate date)
• Edgar Degas
  • After the Bath, Woman drying herself (probable latest date)
  • Photographic self-portrait
• Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Maud Cook
• Paul Gauguin – Oviri (stoneware)
• Countess Feodora von Gleichen – Statue of Queen Victoria surrounded by children, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
• J. W. Godward
  • Mischief And Repose
  • The Muse Erato At Her Lyre
• George W. Joy
  • The Bayswater Omnibus
  • Joan of Arc
• Sir Frederic Leighton – Flaming June
• Juan Luna
  • La Bulaqueña
  • Tampuhan
• Henry Arthur McArdle – Battle of San Jacinto
• Louis Maurer – The Great Royal Buffalo Hunt
• Gustave Moreau – Jupiter and Semele
• Edvard Munch
  • After the Fall of Man (Ashes)
  • Jealousy
  • Madonna
  • Self-portrait with a cigarette
  • Self-portrait with skeleton arm (lithograph)
• Roderic O'Conor – La Jeune Bretonne
• Tom Roberts – Bailed Up
• John Singer Sargent – Frederick Law Olmsted
• Carlos Schwabe – La mort du fossoyeur ("The Death of the Gravedigger")
• Valentin Serov – Portrait of Countess Varvara Musina-Pushkina
• Marianne Stokes – St. Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor
• Théophile Steinlen – Les Chanteurs des Rues
• Vardges Sureniants – Desecrated Shrine
• Dorothy Tennant – L'Amour Blessé
• James Tissot – La femme préhistorique
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Portrait of Oscar Wilde^[3]
• Laurits Tuxen – The Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II
• John Henry Twachtman – The White Bridge (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
• Félix Vallotton – Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
• W. L. Wyllie – The Opening of Tower Bridge

Births

• January 21 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (died 1972)
• March 1 – Ogura Yuki, Japanese nihonga painter (died 2000)
• March 4 – Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (died 1938)
• March 29 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter (died 1965)
• April 7 – Jim Ede, English art collector (died 1990)
• May 8 – Georg Muche, German painter (died 1987)
• June 3 – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (died 1974)
• June 5 – William Roberts, British painter (died 1980)
• July 2 – Gen Paul, French painter and engraver (died 1975)
• July 19 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (died 1953)
• August 7 – Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (died 1974)
• August 17 – Talbert Abrams, "father of aerial photography" (died 1990)
• November 1 – David Jones, British poet and painter (died 1974)
• December 26 – Jefto Perić, Serbian painter (died 1967)
• date unknown
  • Ilija Bašičević, Serbian painter and father of painter-sculptor Dimitrije Bašičević (died 1972)
  • Marguerite Huré, French stained glass artist (died 1967)

Deaths

• January 5 – Władysław Podkowiński, painter and illustrator (born 1866)
• February 1 – Mary Thornycroft, sculptor (born 1809)
• February 8 – Jean-François Portaels, painter (born 1818)
• March 2 – Berthe Morisot, Impressionist painter (born 1841)
• March 6 – Edwin Forbes, landscape painter and etcher (born 1839)
• April 19 – Sir George Scharf, art critic (born 1820)
• April 21 – Arthur Gilbert, painter (born 1819)
• May 24 – Joseph Quinaux, landscape painter (born 1822)
• September 21 – Silvestro Lega, painter (born 1826)
• November 23 – Mauritz de Haas, painter (born 1832)
• date unknown – Gaetano Milanesi, art historian (born 1813)

References

1. Johnston, Ian (March 2004). "An Introduction to the Work of Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau". Nanaimo: Malaspina University-College. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
2. "La Biennale – From the beginnings until the Second World War". Venice: La Biennale. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
3. Kennedy, Maev (2000-11-10). "Toulouse-Lautrec portrait of Oscar Wilde resurfaces". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2012-06-18.